100 Years Ago: 1924 Because the June 15, 1924 Sun Journal is not available, we are offering this item from June 15, 1923. For the forty-eighth consecutive season, the Poland Spring House opened Thursday noon with luncheon promptly and as though it had never been closed — every department in complete order and the house […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Women are fast coming to the front in the art of poultry breeding. Miss Mary A. Wingate of Hallowell has made the same success with ducks that Mrs. Florence Guptel of Topsham has with turkeys. Both have a love of nature and a natural aptitude for raising poultry. Miss Wingate is […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Alice Dick of Auburn was one of four Maine girls to receive a signal honor at Commencement exercises at Lasell seminary this week. These young women received the scholastic award; their work being deemed the best from among 55 senior candidates. Miss Dick is the daughter of Emil Dick. 50 […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A corps of earnest, sincere men and women are at work making their first reaches for a goal that will not be achieved before October. And then, when it is achieved, it will only be by virtue of unceasing work from now until the Harvest moon is shining. But it is […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Impressive flag raising exercises by the visiting Patriarchs Militant in front of Abou Ben Adhem Hall, Auburn, opened the second day’s program Wednesday. Several hundred were in attendance when the halyards were raised, carrying a huge American flag, which as it unfolded sent a shower of tiny ones floating to the street […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 More than 700 heart specialists, among the fifteen thousand physicians attending the seventy fifth annual convention of the American Medical Association in Chicago, listened simultaneously today to the pulsation of a heart. The demonstration made possible through the use of a giant stethophone was a feature of the opening of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Lewiston democrats are going to organize the French speaking women of the community. A meeting will be held in the aldermen’s room, Lewiston city building, at 7.30 p.m., Thursday night, when Mrs. Phil Howard of Rockland will speak. Her remarks will be in French. The meeting was called by Mrs. Ruth […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 “If a call came today to put the entire national guard of Maine into the field, it is ready!” There was pardonable pride in the voice of Adjutant General Hanson when he made that statement. “In twelve hours from the time the call came we could have our troops mobilized at […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The Public Utilities Commission, Thursday rendered a decision granting the request of the Androscoggin Electric Company (Portland- Lewiston Interurban) to increase its fare between Lewiston and Portland from 93 cents to $1.00, which change necessitates a readjustment of intermediate fares, thereby making both slight advances and reductions for the intermediate zone […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Kristiana Hansen of Tokton Springs, Maine, dropped dead on the bridge of the freighter Absecon, of which he was skipper, as the vessel was entering this port Thursday. A distress signal from the freighter brought another boat alongside but there was no doctor on the answering craft. The body will be […]